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Sacamantecas ("Fat extractor" in Spanish) or mantequero〔''Al Sur de Granada'', pages 190-193, Gerald Brenan, 1997, Fábula - Tusquets Editores. Originally ''South from Granada'', 1957〕 ("Fat seller/maker") is the Spanish name for a kind of bogeyman〔(Sacamantecas ) in the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española〕 or criminal〔 characterized by killing for human fat. ==Anthropology== Julian Pitt-Rivers reports〔''(The People of the Sierra )'', J. A. Pitt-Rivers, page 205, 1954, Criterion Books, New York.〕 in his study of Alcalá de la Sierra the belief that village children can be stolen by an outsider, disguised as a beggar or a trader, who is hired by a rich man whose ill child can only be cured with the blood of healthy babies. The practice of blood donation lent credence to the myth. Gerald Brenan〔 describes the ''mantequero'' as a monster in human form who lives in deserted areas and feeds on ''manteca''〔(manteca ) in the DRAE〕 ("() fat"). Upon capture, he shouts in a high pitch and, unless just fed, looks thin. Brenan found the myth alive during his stays in the Alpujarra (Andalusia): In 1927 or 1928, he had sublet his Yegen home to the British writer Dick Strachey, nephew of Lytton Strachey. One day, Strachey was walking on rough terrain where he saw three suspicious men. Fearing of bandoleros, he ran away, but the three Gipsies chased him and drew their knives shouting at him as a ''mantequero''. The first impulse of the Gipsies was to kill the ''mantequero'' and use his blood for magical remedies. However the eldest Gipsy, a convict, judged safer to bring Strachey to the mayor. They offered to slit his throat themselves, but the British man claimed in his rudimentary Spanish to be a relative of king George V of England, convincing the mayor that he was not dealing with a monster. A friend of Brenan found that in Torremolinos all the girls believed in ''mantequeros''. In the urban version of the legend,〔 an old evil marquis needs baby blood transfusions to rejuvenate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「sacamantecas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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